Weinhardt, Michael; Meyermann, Alexia; Liebig, Stefan; Schupp, Jürgen: The Linked Employer–Employee Study of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-LEE): Project Report. In: . Jg.829. 2016
Inhalt
- The Linked Employer–Employee Study of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-LEE): Project Report
- Content
- 1 Introduction
- 2 General information about the study
- 2.1 Objectives and scope of the study
- 2.2 Topics covered in the SOEP-LEE study
- 2.3 Previous studies and research
- 2.4 Employee-first method: Population, sampling procedure, and sample
- 2.5 Main establishment questionnaire
- 2.6 Questionnaire mode
- 2.7 Paradata: Contact form, interview form, interviewer questionnaire
- 2.7.1 Documenting the contact process: Contact forms
- 2.7.2 Documenting the interview process: Interview form and audio recordings
- 2.7.3 Documenting the interview staff: Interviewer questionnaire
- 2.8 Summary
- 3 Project planning and development
- 3.1 Pre–data collection phase
- 3.1.1 Collection of employers’ addresses from SOEP participants
- 3.1.2 Verification and validation of employer addresses
- 3.1.3 Study and questionnaire design
- 3.1.4 Questionnaire development: Designing questions for establishment surveys
- 3.1.5 Pretest: Cognitive interviews
- 3.1.6 Pretest
- 3.1.7 Institutional support to boost response
- 3.1.8 Interviewer training and payment
- 3.2 Data collection and fieldwork
- 3.2.1 Contacting the establishments: Call record data and interviewer evaluations
- 3.2.2 Fieldwork progress
- 3.2.3 The respondent
- 3.2.4 Interviewer reports on the contact process
- 3.3 Post–data collection phase
- 3.4 Project report for establishments
- 3.5 Summary
- 4 Outcomes and response rates
- 4.1 Step 1: Collecting employer addresses from employees
- 4.2 Step 2: The establishment survey of employers
- 4.2.1 Sample eligibility
- 4.2.2 SOEP-LEE survey outcomes and outcome codes
- 4.2.3 Calculating outcome rates
- 4.3 Linkage to administrative data
- 4.4 Summary
- 5 Survey quality: Representation and measurement
- 5.1 Representation and selectivity
- 5.1.1 The individual SOEP data as a representative sample of German employees
- 5.1.2 The SOEP-LEE data as a representative sample of German employers
- 5.1.3 Selectivity and nonresponse at the employee level
- 5.1.4 Selectivity and unit nonresponse at the employer level
- 5.2 Measurement
- 5.2.1 Interviewer reports with regard to measurement
- 5.2.2 Item nonresponse
- 5.2.3 The SOEP-LEE interviewer staff
- 5.2.4 Comparison of establishment size between SOEP data and establishment survey
- 5.3 Summary
- 6 Data edits, confidentiality, anonymization, dissemination, and linkage
- 6.1 Edits and checks by the project team
- 6.2 Confidentiality and anonymization
- 6.3 Dissemination of the data
- 6.4 Data structure and data linkage
- 6.5 Publications and presentations
- 7 Discussion and outlook
- 7.1 Merits of the SOEP-LEE study
- 7.2 Choosing the organizational level to be interviewed
- 7.3 Sampling procedures
- 7.4 Questionnaire design
- 7.5 Fieldwork and outcomes
- 7.6 Representativeness and selectivity
- 7.7 Data quality and measurement error
- 7.8 Outlook and concluding comments
- Funding and acknowledgments
- References